I have no formal political pact with ODM – President Ruto
President William Ruto has backed former Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s remarks to the effect that there is no proper political pact binding the ruling Kenya Kwanza Alliance and the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM).
The head of state maintains that he is careful not to undermine the role of the opposition in the country to conduct checks and balances over his administration noting that this informed the decision not to come up with an alliance with the orange party.
“Let me clarify as the party leader of ODM did, that we did not form a coalition government so that nobody will tell us we are trying to compromise the opposition. We have no formal coalition arrangement,” he said
Instead, President Ruto indicated that his party and Raila’s outfit made a decision to work together on matters they share common ideologies in order to get the country on a development trajectory.
“What we have is running an administration on matters that we have agreed so that we can put the country first and deal with challenges that put Kenya to where it is,”
“The housing programme, it was in the manifesto of ODM and it was in the manifesto of Kenya Kwanza. The UHC programme was on both sides of the divide. There are things that are common between us. And my question is those things that we have no contest about, can we agree on things and move the country forward? And that is how we agreed with ODM on a broad-based government on items that we all agree on,” he explained at a town hall meeting in Mombasa on Sunday evening.
